How to Choose Good Moldings 

This is absolutely my DREAM CHANNEL! Thank you for covering all these antique architectural details, great content

Absolutely love it, listening to the rant and observing all the mouldings around my house and just shaking my head with a smile on my face, Thanks Brent & Build Show Network.

Subbed. Im a carpenter building my own craftsman style house. You caught me with your tapered column video on the day i was to start building them. I had never before considered proportions more than subjective aesthetics. Ill be binge watching all your videos for the next week or so. Thanks for the quality content!

Always great videos from you. Please keep them coming.

The "rant" is an absolutely warranted. It's like everyone wants to look "rich" but with only a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" idea what that means and certainly no ability to afford what it takes. I'd love to see what a good design of today would be like for the kind of budget that sends people to the Big Box stores buying the copies of copies of copies of "traditional". How do we respect the rationality and sense of proportion of Palladio on a modest budget, when even most architects seem to have fallen into the McMansion trap of building boxes tarted up with whatever random ornamentation the budget allows?

So Informative, thank you once again Professor Hull. Completely understood everything you were teaching.

We’re in the process of restoring an 1850 Queen Anne and your content is what I’ve been dying to find. Just ordered one of your books. Love the passion. When you were in Boston, did you ever check out the Eustis Estate in Milton?

Wow, I'm blown away. love this video

Good info. You definitely have an unprecedented passion for this craft. Thanks

Brent you have inspired in me such a love of classical architecture. Thank you so much!

What a very inspiring and informative lecture on moldings! Thank you for sharing that valuable knowledge and experience you have!

This is extremely knowledgeable. Thank you sir!

Thanks. I learned a lot. My house is 1939 and very simple. I have lots of plain moldings. Some we added. We did okay since we matched the old stuff.

Your rants are a blessing sir.

My lifelong dream, has been to tour all house museums in this country. What a treat it would be to have a docent available to highlight the joinery, as they say across the pond🤓

So passionate!

Love this breakdown. Learned a lot. Want to put up some molding myself, but live in a small'ish apartment with only 7.8 ft ceiling, so guess it would be hard to find anything fitting

Great video very good 👍

Love your videos they're very informative! Do you have any videos that explains scale of traditional moldings to ceiling Heights? My father was a finish Carpenter who worked most of his career restoring old mansions and historical sites in Boston. I have many fond memories of doing layouts and designing intricate custom moldings with him.

so glad i found this vidio ill be buying all your books very interested in this type of carpentry( im an intermeadate carpenter timber framer)

I am super fascinated by all of this and I'm only a flooring installer. The houses here in New Zealand that are around 100 to 120 years old that should have the nice architecture still only have the extent of what you call a bad molding in extra wide used for skirtings and door casing. Sure you might find the odd jem with some nice stuff in it but incredibly rare, I would love to come over there and see some of this stuff because you just don't see it here. Doing what I do for a living I work in a lot of new houses in a near completed state and it seems as though it's just about slap it up as quickly and cheap as possible. The same basic trim with a slight angle on top used for everything, the same concave plaster made crown trim and sometimes it's just straight plastered corners with nothing on them. Yes it's part of a lot of factors like modern taste, cost, time and just life these days in general but it becomes very bland and uninteresting very quickly. Keep the videos and information coming it's great to not lose this knowledge to time.

Thanks very much such a fascinating video. Just came across your channel, a recommendation from Richard @Finish Carpentry TV, look forward to watching some of your back catalogue.

I inquired about buying the book "Historic Millwork" using the email address you mentioned and was told the book price is $75 not $50 like you said in the video. Really enjoy the information in you provide. thanks

Thanks for the detailed in formation, but in some ways I found it is nearly impossible to choose a molding for a home worth 1.3 million in northern California with only 8 foot ceilings. No one I know has your level of sophistication or knowledge. I think most people just choose moldings because they look pretty. I want to replace all the crown moldings but I feel more confused than before. I was looking at the Horner Millwork catalogue and they have suggestions for 8 foot ceilings but I don't feel it tells any sort of story.

What would suit a more modern townhouse if we wanted to bring in a more traditional style? Trying to figure out what path to take before changing the trim and dressing up the rooms.

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Where did you find those books? Ebay? And so true hand made is gone! no one will pay me to hand make things ones I tell them how long it will take me. Thanks for the rant;)

What is the name of the moulding book you are referencing in the video from the 1920's? thanks

Labor was alot cheaper too back in pre 1900

Your library link is dead.

Hi Brent this is Gabriel Fagotti again I am fully subscribed and have watched all of your videos I will email you shortly about our restoration project or house building project for my colonial revival style home with interior Georgian wall papers and colonial and neo classical interiors with a Greek revival palldain exterior. However the colonial finishings on the door entrances wich copies palladain style is varry beautiful I will send you photos of colums Baldwin moldingsgetgian wall papers crown moldings arches fire placeswppd floor patterns in the colonial style and different styles in the colonial style Gergian and neo classical style that reminds us of our nation's history and colonial Williamsburg. I know many historical Greek revivals and neo classical homes that look like antabelluims. I noticed a hudge difference in the gilded adge mansions of saint Luis Missouri Road island long island that replicate classical Europe. Greek revival exterior palladain exterior and Georgian interior colonial interior with neo classical interior are my favorite styles in the US in Europe Europe Italian baroque Italian rocco and English Georgian and palladain with French rocco.

history is lovely but never neglect the essence of a new creation. More-over we should pay attention to the flow and design aspect of what your channel is clinging to but always remember we are inventors and have the ability to create things unwritten.

Picking random mouldings can be likened to getting a Japanese kanji tattoo without knowing what it says. You might be walking around with the word dog breath written on you.

After the Edwardian (Greek, Italianate) period 1900 to 1920 the barbarians took over and they had no use for proper building and beauty, in fact anyone interested in Traditional architecture was hounded into the wilderness. and our cities became concrete jungles.

I love ypu man, but christo colombus did not discover america

I'd like to add that it is possible to get decorative moulding with deep details but without paying an astronomical $250/ft. You can use composite (compo) mouldings (assuming you're painting the moulding) to get deep details for a fraction of the cost of purely carved mouldings and there is historical precedence for this type of moulding: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_ornament